Benjamin Barber Quotes

By the laws of the land, people who come looking for jobs in America are illegal. But by the laws of economics, they are following the logic and laws of economics when they leave Guatemala and go to Mexico, leave Mexico and come to the U.S., leave Africa and go to Spain and Europe looking for jobs.

Benjamin Barber

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• Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Child
  • Laws
  • Guns

• In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • House
  • Laws
  • Obey

• The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

  

  Tacitus
  • More
  • Laws
  • Corrupt

• When you have a steady job you're more inspired to broaden yourself.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Job
  • Inspired
  • Jobs

• On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch -- engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees are so limited that they cannot even think about how to create a job for themselves.

  

  Haki R. Madhubuti
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Job

• I always tell people when it's time to make a decision to stay or go [at a job], if it's a difficult decision, you should stay. If it's an easy decision, you should go.

  

  J. A. Adande
  • People
  • Time
  • Job

• Ascribing racial animus to people who are trying to safeguard democratic integrity is a crude yet effective political tactic that obscures the truth. But there's something even worse than name-calling: legal interference from Washington with valid laws.

  

  Edwin Meese
  • People
  • Trying
  • Truth

• When you gotta go out and make a movie to pay for the kid's private school and for the three ex-wives, don't talk to me about your artistry. It's their job. It's not my job. It's my calling.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • School
  • Job
  • Kids

• Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Good
  • Job
  • Jobs

• The stunning part was that one time Neil McElroy the Secretary of Defense who was the father of one of our classmates spoke and basically at commencement, he told us all that our job after graduation was to get married and have interesting sons...and we all found that hard to believe.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Job

• The reason companies work is because you're able to get a lot of people doing the work; it's not because of this visionary. Steve Jobs didn't make Apple; it was a bunch of people. The building of the right team is an art in and of its own right.

  

  D.A. Wallach
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• In a certain respect, in a movie, you inevitably have a lot of people doing a lot of different jobs because that's the only practical way to get it done. When you make a record, you can still be an auteur, because you can make a whole record without anyone's help if you want.

  

  D.A. Wallach
  • People
  • Different
  • Done

• Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Words

• Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Religion
  • Laws
  • Reverence

• Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.

  

  Aristotle
  • Lives
  • Laws
  • State

• A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

  

  William Randolph Hearst
  • Freedom
  • Politics
  • Jobs

• We don't want to act like adults. Anybody who can stay in a state of adolescence will be much better off later on. Look at people who are working nine-to-five jobs out of college, and look at professional skateboarders or guys in punk bands. See who's having more fun.

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • Fun
  • College
  • Jobs

• We were wild-eyed hippies from the late '60s. We still had the exuberance of the mind-expanding '60s - that Tolkienesque, Zeppelin, androgynous, wood nymph, forest fairy kind of innocence. It sounds stupid now, but we felt we were changing the world with music.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Zeppelin
  • Mind-expanding
  • Tolkienesque

• The fact is that the New Deal was, overall, a dismal failure.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Failure
  • Facts
  • Deals

• You can never predict what an audience is going to respond to and what they're going to watch.

  

  Josh Lawson
  • Audience
  • Watch
  • Predict

• Normally when I look at stuff, I try to look at the good things. When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Look
  • Good Things

• By the laws of the land, people who come looking for jobs in America are illegal. But by the laws of economics, they are following the logic and laws of economics when they leave Guatemala and go to Mexico, leave Mexico and come to the U.S., leave Africa and go to Spain and Europe looking for jobs.

  

  Benjamin Barber
  • Jobs
  • Laws
  • Mexico